Our Position:

The management and staff of all Fleurop and Interflora companies value the safety and good health of anyone who handles our products – most importantly the florists who handle them and customers who receive them. Management believes that actively identifying and mitigating risks associated with PPP exposure will help to minimize potentially adverse impacts of exposure to hazardous PPPs. As an association of companies sharing the brands, we are collectively determined to achieve our vision of reducing the probability of exposure to hazardous PPPs for florists, customers, and by extension, our suppliers, and the communities and environment in which our industry operates

We acknowledge that – although in most cases we don’t grow or directly control sourcing of flowers and plants used in the products we sell, or control or oversee the safety practices of the independent florists who fulfil our orders – we have a responsibility for the products we sell to our customers, as well as a powerful role to play, as representatives of the large collective buying power of those networks of florists and other fulfilment sites, to identify and mitigate any potential health and safety risks in the fulfilment of our orders.

Objectives & Approach:

Internally, with our florists and customers, and at an industry level, we aim to:

1. Identify and improve accuracy of scientific evidence of any potential hazard of any PPP used on ornamental flowers and plants that we sell, as well as the key drivers of the incidence of any hazardous use of PPPs.

2. Develop and deliver on solutions to mitigate any risks of exposure to hazardous levels of any PPPs identified as likely hazardous to the health of florists or customers, and, by doing so, have a positive influence up and down the supply chain towards reducing hazards to growers, transporters and any other people or natural environments impacted by our industry’s products, with particular focus on improving the industry’s transparency about where our flowers come from and how they are grown towards better outcomes for all stakeholders, from grower to recipient. 

6 Key Actions:

Internally, and wherever possible in collaboration with regulatory bodies, certification bodies, growers and traders, florists and customers, we commit to:

1. Governance:
Dedicating resources at a global and national level to the identification and mitigation of potential risks

2. Testing:
Testing of flowers and plants for improved visibility of hazards – initially using existing commonly used substance safety lists available and in use by individual growers and their certification partners

3. Solutions and Consequences:
Safety controls through a combination of solutions development and escalating consequences for continued hazardous use of PPPs by growers

4. Research:
Ongoing research for improved accuracy of knowledge about PPP Hazards – including development of our own recommendations for amendments of commonly used substance safety lists*

5. Awareness and Education:
Delivery of awareness and education campaigns about the known risks and recommended solutions for mitigating risks with customers, colleagues, supply chain stakeholders, and crucially, florist shop workers.

6. Transparency:
Reporting on our actions and outcomes to ensure transparency and accountability

*Current and historical lists – version controlled and date-stamped to account for changing best available data – are available for review by our stakeholders on request and will be published in our public reporting.

Our commitment to action:

1. First Steps:
Starting in April 2025, we have focused on establishing our work to honour this policy, by kicking off with Key Actions 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 (Governance, Testing, Solutions engagement, Awareness and Education for florists and Reporting).

2. Scaling Up:
At the end of 2025 – following a review of the progress made and new information discovered – we will begin scaling up our approach, to meet the full ambition of this safety policy during 2026.

The details for all the above actions are detailed in our PPP Safety Policy, available by request.

For any queries regarding our work on PPP Safety,
please contact us on: PPPSafety@fleurop.com

Enquiries addressed to a specific country can be written in the local language and will be replied to by the local Interflora / Fleurop office.